9. Based on the excerpt below, what is the narrator's primary motivation for acting as she does?
The man thing looked around. It had no gun, like the ones from the
man places do. But it picked up a heavy fallen tree branch in its
long white foot, and shoved the end of that down into our house, at
me. I snapped the end of it in my teeth and started to force my way
out, because I knew the man would kill our children if it could. But
my sister was already coming. I saw her running at the man with her
head low and her mane high and her eyes yellow as the winter sun. It
turned on her and raised up that branch to hit her. But I come out of
the doorway, mad with the mother anger, and the others all were
coming answering my call, the whole pack gathering, there in that
blind glare and heat of the sun at noon.

the right ones are in bold.

daintly refers to the fact she was reaching for what she ate, not necessarily what she is like.

greatest charm as in she possessed (=had) the greatest charm.

pleasant (her demeanor)

speaking (of her sensibility)

dead refers to the hypothetical mouse.

bleeding refers to the hypothetical mouse.

what passage are you referring to

wordsworth tends to see nature as 'out there'; a presence which surrounds humans, and contributes to human life, but is different from humans. if you look at a typical wordsworth poem (there was a boy, ye knew him well ye rocks) - wordsworth talks about nature as something that needs to be learned about and understood, nature is different from us.  

if you look at a byron poem (the isles of greece is a good one) - byron looks at nature mainly for what it already means to man. wordsworth will look at a landscape and see the mountains, trees, valleys, and rivers as almost spiritual presences - wordsworth wants to get to know nature.  

byron will look at the same landscape and he will want to know who lives there, what are the villages? are there any farms or mines, is there some history?  

wordsworth looks at nature for what it is; byron is forever asking what it means.  

wordsworth thinks that humans are part of nature; byron thinks that nature is part of being human

the answer is subjective. i personally agree with the first answer for this question.

if one isn't strictly talking about objects then the correct answer would be 'my eyes' since according to this riddle i am asleep and in order to answer/open the door i need to open my eyes first of all.

however, if one is specifically looking for an object, then the first thing i would open would be the door

hope this !